Hacker News: nathell

New comment by nathell in "Chuwi Minibook X"

nathell — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:15:22 +0000

Similar vibes as my GPD Micro PC: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/i-love-my-gpd-micro-pc/

ReMarkable Connection Utility (RCU)

nathell — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:18:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211809

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "Haiku"

nathell — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:11:57 +0000

Posting stuff that has been around for years makes it possible for today’s lucky 10,000 [0] to learn about that stuff.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by nathell in "What if database branching was easy?"

nathell — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:38 +0000

It appears that Datahike [0] is a Datomic workalike that supports branching. I haven’t tried it out myself (yet), but the documentation suggests it’s possible [1].

That said, I’m adding xitdb to the list of tech to try out. Thank you for building it!

Oh, and thanks for linking to my article :-)

[0]: https://github.com/replikativ/datahike

[1]: https://datahike.io/notes/the-git-model-for-databases/

How can I keep from singing?

nathell — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:18:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/singing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769245

Points: 105

# Comments: 38

New comment by nathell in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

nathell — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:13:17 +0000

Gentle reminder about this excerpt from HN Guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

How can I keep from singing?

nathell — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:05:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/singing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763543

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Remembering Piotr "Chastell" Szotkowski

nathell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/remembering-piotr-chastell-szotkowski/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750117

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website"

nathell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:15:52 +0000

Mine is ‘Anchorhead’ (1998), by Michael Gentry. I think it’s actually my favourite game of all time, of all genres.

I’ve played the old, text-only, Z-code version back in high school, around 1999, and the experience was so vivid and immersive that to this day I can draw a map of Anchorhead from memory and recite the lineage of the Verlac family. I think it’s still my favourite game of all time (although I spent much more time on some others).

These days, an illustrated version can be bought on Steam for something like $10. Highly recommended!

New comment by nathell in "Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website"

nathell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:13:23 +0000

Ligatures in the retro terminal kill the illusion.

New comment by nathell in "The Miller Principle (2007)"

nathell — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:53:56 +0000

Joel Spolsky in 2000 [0]: „Users can’t read anything, and if they could, they wouldn’t want to.”

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...

New comment by nathell in "Claude mixes up who said what"

nathell — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:37:15 +0000

I don’t think so, at least not in this particular case. This was a conversation with the 1M context window enabled; this happened before the first compaction – you can see a compaction further down in the logs.

My theory is that Claude confuses output of commands running in the background with legitimate user input.

New comment by nathell in "Claude mixes up who said what"

nathell — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:06:03 +0000

I’ve hit this! In my otherwise wildly successful attempt to translate a Haskell codebase to Clojure [0], Claude at one point asks:

[Claude:] Shall I commit this progress? [some details about what has been accomplished follow]

Then several background commands finish (by timeout or completing); Claude Code sees this as my input, thinks I haven’t replied to its question, so it answers itself in my name:

[Claude:] Yes, go ahead and commit! Great progress. The decodeFloat discovery was key.

The full transcript is at [1].

[0]: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2026/03/26/claude-nlp/

[1]: https://pliki.danieljanus.pl/concraft-claude.html#:~:text=Sh...

Major Polish crypto exchange presumed insolvent

nathell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:07:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/wielki-problem-zondacrypto-klienci-sie-skarza-mamy-niepokojaca-analize-7272365494077632a.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696905

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

nathell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:07:31 +0000

The post is just a prelude to a 10-part article, most of which is not yet released (but will be shortly). Judging by the table of contents, the things you expected will be elaborated on in subsequent parts.

New comment by nathell in "How to get better at guitar"

nathell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:28:45 +0000

Can attest to this.

I picked up singing 4 years ago (I’m 42 now), starting from nothing, and I’ve been taking regular lessons. I still suck. But I suck slightly less than I did when I was starting, and what motivates me is the sheer joy that it brings. I just hope it lasts.

New comment by nathell in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

nathell — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:05:34 +0000

HN’s guidelines say ‘Don’t editorialize’. The original title here is ‘[BUG] Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows’, which is more specific and less clickbaity.

Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude

nathell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:23:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2026/03/26/claude-nlp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602971

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nathell in "In the next version of Bun, Bun goes ad supported"

nathell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:20:30 +0000

Can we ban April’s Fools?

Human.json

nathell — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:09:51 +0000

Article URL: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202603/humanjson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586161

Points: 1

# Comments: 0